Rémi Moyen writes: > OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing > system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But > rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the > "waiting for udev to be populated" message) and then all I get is a > blank screen. Some messages get displayed before, but so fast that I > have no hope to even catch a glimpse of a word. The screen flickers > when it becomes black, at about the time where in the 2.6 kernel the > screen resolution changes, so I guess this is the step that fails. > With the blank screen, I can't do anything. Keyboard seems dead (at > least "Caps Lock" doesn't respond, although "Num Lock" does). The > machine is still alive and can be logged-on remotely, but that's all. > I didn't see anything strange in syslog or dmesg, but I might have > missed something. > > I stress here the fact that I am only working in console. No X server > has been installed yet, and certainly no display manager (so when > booting, it stays in console). I will install an X server later but I > feel that I should fix problems one at a time... (actually, I did a > first install with the graphic environment as well and things didn't > work better, so I started again a fresh install without it, to better > isolate problems)
If you are not running or have X installed, you can uninstall nouveau and nvidia-glx packages. Since you can access the machine from a network connection, watch for errors in the logs with the «dmesg» command. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bopsgjr3....@eps142.cdf.udc.es
